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It was probably inevitable that Alex Jones would wind up suing the Sandy Hook parents. After years of calling them crisis actors who faked the murders of their own children and encouraging his deranged supporters to harass them for years on end, Jones is now demanding that they make him whole for his pain and suffering.
Jones, a sentient shitpost who is rapidly transforming into a case of explosive diarrhea, is trying desperately to fend off the sale of his company Free Speech Systems to the owners of the satirical website The Onion. And because the parents of the Sandy Hook kids are supportive of the sale, he’s happily willing to paint a target on their backs again.
The issue is the structure of the bid package, in which the parents who sued in Connecticut agreed to disclaim some of their proceeds in favor of the parents who sued in Texas. Because of the gross disparity in their damages awards — $1.4 billion compared to $50 million — the Connecticut plaintiffs are legally entitled to 97 percent of the proceeds of the sale. To ensure that the Texas plaintiffs were better off under a deal with The Onion’s parent company Global Tetrahedron than with the Jones-aligned bidder, a shell company calling itself First United American Companies LLC (FUAC), the Connecticut plaintiffs agreed to disclaim enough of their share to make the Texas plaintiffs $100,000 better off. By my math, that’s about $537,500.
The asset transfer, along with a promise to share future ad revenues with the Sandy Hook families, convinced Chapter 7 Trustee Christopher Murray that The Onion’s offer maximized value for all creditors, despite the fact that it was lower than the competing bid. FUAC is already challenging this decision, filing a highly incendiary motion to disqualify Global Tetrahedron that made allegations of gross impropriety against Murray. Murray responded with a threat to seek Rule 11 sanctions against FUAC’s lawyer Walter Cicack.
Jones has been screaming bloody murder on his show about the Justice Department under Trump throwing Murray and The Onion’s CEO Ben Collins in jail, as well as predicting that Elon Musk is going to ride to his rescue. (He’s not.) And last night he went one further and filed an absolutely batshit complaint against Murray, Global Tetrahedron, and the Connecticut Sandy Hook parents demanding that US Bankruptcy Judge Christopher Lopez stop the sale, declare FUAC the winner, and order the putative defendants to:
a. Cease to use, directly or indirectly, any Jones IP Rights;b. Cease from using any reference to Alex Jones in their business or operations or suggesting or inferring that they have any rights to use of Alex Jones’s name or persona;c. Return to the business offices of FSS and to the control of Alex Jones, who is the duly elected Manager of FSS, all assets of FSS and/or Alex Jones that have been taken;d. Identify to Alex Jones all assets (tangible or intangible) of FSS and/or Alex Jones known to have been taken and/or secreted;e. Cease and refrain from (i) any interference with the operation and management by Alex Jones of the business of FSS, including InfoWars, and (ii) dealing with any and all third parties in matters that relate to or concern the assets of FSS and/or Alex Jones, without the express written permission of this Court;f. Cease to advise or publish that any of the Enjoined Parties owns or has acquired the right to own, any assets or business of FSS and/or Alex Jones, including without limitation any Jones IP Rights; andg. Notify in writing all persons to whom any of the Enjoined Parties has told they own or have acquired the right to own, any assets or business of FSS and/or Alex Jones, including without limitation any Jones IP Rights, and advise them that statements previously made to the contrary were made in error.
Leave aside the whole prior restraint thing. How Murray is supposed to simultaneously convey the assets to FUAC and return them to Jones — who voluntarily filed for Chapter 7 liquidation! — is not entirely clear. But this document was drafted by apparently experienced bankruptcy counsel who are unaware of the Barton doctrine, which bars suits against a bankruptcy trustee without leave of the court. They also seem to think that media defendants have some kind of magical shield of invincibility when it comes to issues of public importance, so the trail court verdicts should be treated as presumptively overturned. And if Jones hadn’t defaulted in both courts, perhaps he could have made that point to the jury. Anyway, it violates Jones’s free speech rights to sell his IP to gun control advocates, and he intends to seek monetary damages. Also, the judgments against him are unfair because something something Hillary Clinton.
And if that wasn’t nutty enough, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has entered the chat. LOL, what even is federalism, amirite?
Alexander E. Jones and Official Committee Of Unsecured Creditors [Docket via Court Listener]
Liz Dye lives in Baltimore where she produces the Law and Chaos substack and podcast.
